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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Piano accompaniment by Robert Schumann
Benjamin Schmid (violin) & Lisa Smirnova (piano) Believe it or not, this CD is the first recording ever of Bach’s violin solo compositions as interpreted by Robert Schumann, performed here by critically-acclaimed violinist Benjamin Schmid. “Benjamin Schmid plays Bach's originals with supple virtuosity.” BBC Music Magazine, July 2010 **** | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Raphaëla Smits has been playing in her unique style on eight-stringed guitars and historic instruments for 30 years. “She bewitches the audience from start to finish with her stylish sensitivity and her musical authenticity.” De Stem, Netherlands | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Bach - Violin Sonatas & Partitas
2CD+DVD David Grimal, one of the leading French violinists of his generation, releases his third recital for Ambroisie featuring Bach’s solo sonatas and partitas interspersed with the world premiere recording of a piece by exciting young French composer, Brice Pauset. This recording marks a very special moment in the career of internationally renowned violinist, David Grimal. It is the culmination of a long journey of initiation that has seen David battle, not only with the complexities of Bach’s music and the secrets of the composers language, but also with his desire to discover more about himself and of his own musical voice. Through musical experimentation, the inspiration of fellow musicians, and spiritual enlightenment when playing in India, David Grimal now approaches music, his life and his playing, in a more mature way and has learnt to “ceaselessly question the mysteries of proportion and colour”. Brice Pauset’s Kontrapartita, given its premiere recording here, was inspired by the ‘morphology and the metaphorical strength’ of Bach’s music. In his booklet note Pauset says this led him to transfer his “impressions of the relationship of the bow to the violin strings into a piece in which bow and violin are treated as found objects”. The release also includes a bonus DVD of David Grimal playing Bach’s stunning Partita No.2 in D minor, BWV 1004 featuring the monumental and hugely popular ‘Chaconne’. | | | (also available to download from $21.00) | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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Nemanja Radulovic (violin) A live recording from The Reims Festival in 2005 of the young Yugoslavian violinist Nemanja Radulovic. Currently under the mentorship of Salvatore Accardo and can also name Yehudi Menuhin, Joshua Epstein and Dejan Mihailovic amongst his teachers. Radulovic plays with phenomenal technical skill and is surely destined to be a star of the concert platform. | | | This item is currently out of stock at the UK distributor. You may order it now but please be aware that it may be six weeks or more before it can be despatched. |
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| |  | Bach - Transcriptions For Guitar Volume 2
Filomena Moretti (guitar) This superb release from Transart features the wonderful combination of the music of Bach and the
playing of Filomena Moretti. This young artist, already a veteran of the concert platform and
winner of practically every major guitar competition, is a master musician. These skilful
transcriptions are faithful to the original compositions and a delight to the ear. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Profound in spirit and monumental in scope Bach’s Six Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin are arguably the most difficult original solo works ever written for the violin. Their formidable technical challenges, especially the persistent use of multiple stops, are not just virtuoso features but are the natural result of the complexity of Bach’s musical ideas and his understanding of the instrument. | | | (also available to download from $10.75) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Itzhak Perlman - Virtuoso Violinist
This DVD contains three productions from Christopher Nupen’s famously comprehensive portraits of leading performers: the portrait film, Itzhak Perlman: Virtuoso Violinist (I know I played every note) and two memorable performances of Bach partitas shot live, on stage, at a concert in London where this polyfaceted artist is at his best. It also contains two sequences in which Itzhak Perlman looks back. The first of them, The Trout Remembered looks at the making of the film The Trout, probably the most frequently broadcast classical music film in the history of television and one which has become the lasting emblem of a great age in music. The second, made especially for this DVD, "Jacqueline du Pré Remembered", recalls a friend who was very close for many years, a colleague with whom he made chamber music in many places and an artist and personality for whom he has an unbounded admiration and an enduring affection. Itzhak Perlman is one of the world’s leading musical performers, famous all over the world not only as a virtuoso violinist of the highest rank but as a much loved television personality, an honoured guest at the White House and an extremely effective spokesman for the disabled, having been handicapped himself by polio since the age of 31/2. All of these things together, plus a famously lighthearted ebullience, have won him a particularly affectionate following. “Perlman is captured on film in the 1970s at a high-point in his career. Perlman is a brilliant communicator, both with words and with the violin, because of the generous warmth of his personality.” Gramophone Magazine, June 2008 “…the mix of interview and music is well paced, and there's little intrusive commentary.” BBC Music Magazine, April 2008 **** “Doing what television does best, BBC2’s superb Perlman triptych – two concerts sandwiching an intimate you-are-there documentary – took us as close as it is decent and proper to go into the unexplained world of genius.” Daily Mail | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Maya Homburger (baroque violin) Distinguished Swiss baroque violinist Maya Homburger performs J S Bach’s Sonata No 2 in A minor and Partita No 2 in D minor, with its famous Chaconne, together with Aglais, an ethereal piece by English musician Barry Guy inspired by the butterfly of the same name on the second of three imaginative solo recordings on her own label coupling pieces by these composers. “Again, a distinctive new work complements beautifully played Bach. Guy has tailored his invention to the Baroque violin… extending its 18th-century range into new and distinctive areas of sonority. Maya Homburger's Bach is notable for its fine sound and beautiful, thoughtful phrasing.” Gramophone Magazine, May 2008 | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | JS Bach Violin Sonatas with Piano Accompaniment by Schumann
Haroutune Bedelian (violin), Lorna Griffitt (piano) | |
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